George Throckmorton

George Throckmorton (1489-6 August 1552) was an English politician and member of Parliament during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Biography
George Throckmorton was born in Worcestershire, England in 1489, and he became the first member of his family to serve in Parliament as knight of the shire for Warwickshire. During the 1520s, he attached himself to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and he later became an ally of Thomas More. He was a devout Catholic, and he opposed King Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church; nevertheless, a few of his family members (including one of his own sons) converted to Protestantism. Some of his sons would go on to hold high office, and Throckmorton died in 1552.